Just back from a few days in Riga Latvia. She who must be obeyed sorted out a cheap trip from Doncaster with Wizz Air.
The museum is just 3 mins walk from the front of the Main Riga Airport exit, you ring the bell and wait and wait but its worth it in the long run.

In the stash in the loft I have a trawler and it is on the list to do as one of my dads ships (he fished out of Hull after the war)
Neil gave me another trawler and I decided to do a model of one ship in the water about to go fishing and the other a rusty hulk ashore in the mud. It could be a Hull fishing industry now and then type of model - you know I never just make a model out of the box.
Thank you Neil as you can see from the instructions lots and lots of parts -- PROBLEM -- only bits in the bag are the 2 sections of the hull and 3 deck parts. As she will be rusty and covered in tarps and general rubbish, decided to bodge the bridge and cover with tarps and scratch build the other bits and bobs. Being a "Good Yorkshire Man" i have used the key cards from hotels ( read somewhere that if they have your credit card details on them it can be used after you have left - so always take them with me now) to make the sections for the bridge. Funnel is a brass tube squashed in the vice to make an oval shape.

Found the 2 sailors in the back of the draw - had started them in the dim and distant past but changed my mind and stripped the paint from them.
No idea who or what they are but must be from the 1970 or 1980. They are 55mm tall
First photo just primed and the second one with basic block colour started.  The last shot is a wood floor base for them to stand on.

Still working on the WW2 Soviet house and it is at the stage with lots of painting of small figures so started the next model.
As you can see from the box it is the battleship HMS Prince of Wales - but not as you know it.
The model was in a sale and I think it was not just the £3.99 sale price but was also half price to get rid of it.
Now for the model will it be HMS Prince of Wales as she was with the Bismark - NO - it will be one of the class taken out of lay-up after the war and converted into an aircraft carrier with large scale armament ( yes Kiteman its all out of my head and other dark and strange places ). So the hull is now fastened together before making it a waterline model. She will then be given a transom stern and an enlarged hull shape from the mid to back sections. It will then have an angled flight deck with a ski-jump but retaining the ford 4 x 14inch gun.

Since Disney took over the Star Wars franchise -- I have been looking for a cheap "Darth Vadar" or "stormtrooper" to make some alterations with. 
Found this kids toothbrush in Primark for cheap so let the magic begin.

Just catching up with some TV recorded over Christmas and was watching "Lego's Big Christmas" on channel 4 (it is still on catch up if you need to see it.)
This man had so much lego he has bought an extra house to store it all in. So now when "she who must be obeyed" looks at my stash and gives me the look - when will you ever get them all made - I can just remind her about the whole extra  house full of lego.

Just finished this book ( yes Zak I can read ) from The Works -- last time I was in the shop they had none left.  It tells in 150 striking images, the stories of ghost towns,flooded shopping malls, eerily rusting amusement parks and forgotten railways.
It got me thinking about Haddocks comment when I made the Ilyushin Il28 Beagle "have you ever considered doing something clean and undamaged"  -- after this book I think the answer is NO.

When we have all been organised by Kevin (without the lash this time I hope ) the set up photo's will be here.